The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

Never give up and always believe in yourself.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair